Vehicle-tire.



B. H. DIVINE.

VEHICLE TIRE.

AYPLIGATION FILED MAR. 1911.

WITNESSES Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

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VEHICLE TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED, MAR. 6, 1911. 1,056,976. Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

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Siuicatlon of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 25', 1913.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BRADFoRD H. DIVINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica in the county of Oneida and State of New iYork, have invented certain ,new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Tires, of which the following is' a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing. i

My invention relates to a vehicle tire, and I declare the following to be a full, clear, concise and exactdescription thereof, suilicient to enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same reference bein' had to the 'accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a tire adapted for use upon vehicles of most any description, such as automobiles, wagons, trucks, railroad wheels, etc.

The tire comprises a lurality of pieces of plies of fabric, as leat er, canvas felt, or other similar material, .treated with a suitable substance adapted to render' same Water proof, whereby to insure its indestructibility, and circu-mferentially pressed into the desired shape.

`When assembled, the plies of the fabric are arranged with their strands or threads disposed oblique to the axis ofthe wheel. Such oblique disposition having been found by practical tests to be of considerable advantage with reference to Wear. The pieces or plies themselves, are arra ged radially, or transverse to the body v the wheel,

whereby to effect a solid tread that will have' little or no tendency to yield laterally, as would be the circumstance, were the lies arranged circumferentially to the w eel. The aforesaid arrangement of the plies of the fabric, with their threads oblique to the axis of the wheel and the plies themselves, arranged, transverse to the body of the wheel, permits themeans for holdin said plies more securely and in a manner a apted to retain the original shape of the tire during its entire existence.

Other uses and objects will appearby reft erence to the drawings in which;

Figure l is a transverse section of the tire; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a slightly modified construction; Fig. 3 is a transverse section of a still further modification; Fig. 4 shows the tire mounted upon a pneumatic tire, said parts being in transverse section; Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective vlews of plles of fabric composing the tire; Flg. 7 1s a detail of a link employed; Fig. 8 1s a transverse section of the tire mounted upon the road car; ig. 9 is a side elevation of a tire, partly showing the arrangement of the plies, somewhat exaggerated in thickness for the purposes of illustration; Fig. 10 is a fragmentary view showing the threads of the fabric, as disposed oblique to the axis of the Wheel.

Referring more particularly to the drawlngs, I have represented the ordinary felly of a Wheel by 1,"supported by spokes 2. Upon telly 1 is mounted a circumferentially splltI rim comprising member 3, secured to the felly 1 in a proper manner, and member 4, detachably connected with member 3 in any Wellknown Way' of the art. The aforesaid split rim supports an outer rim 5, adapted to hold the assembled plies of fabrlc in position. Said'rim 5 may be formed with a compound curve on either side, thereof, as at 6 and 7, to conform with the contour of thc corresponding part of the plies of fabric, seen in Fig. 1, or with a single curve as in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 2, outer rim 5 is circumferentiallv split, centrally thereof, and members 8 and 9, are held together by stay rods 10 headed, as at 11 and remotely threaded for the mounting of nuts 12. Said stay rods may be riveted at either end to rim 5. Further said stay rods 10 are disposed through suitable h oles made in the fabric.

In Fig. 3, the outer rim 5 is somewhat modified in structure, to conform to the corresponding contour of the fabric. The rim here is circumferentially split and comprises two members 13 and 14 held together by stay rods 10, and provided with semi-circular or other shaped flanges 15 and 16, adapted to tit into and clench the fabric tire formed with corresponding-recesses 17 and 18 for the purpose.

Again in Fig. 4:, lhave shown the fabric tire applied or mounted to form the tread of a pneumatic tire. The outer canvas or shoe 23 of the pneumatic tire extends up ward whereby its respective ends are firmly held to the tire by stay rods 10 pivotally holding on either side of the respective ends of the shoe 23, metal links 19 and 202 respectively. Said links 19 and 20 are plvoteriphery of the Wheel of a rail on either side in recesses 21 and 22 of the tire. The employment of links 19 and 2O l effects a exible connection of the outer canvas or shoe 23 with thel fabric tire, which in this instance serves as the tread. The advantages of a iexible connection of the tread and shoe 23 being apparent in view ofthe yielding tendency of a pneumatic tire.

In Fig. 8, the tire is shown assembled' to a drive wheel of a railroad engine or to the ordinary wheel -of a railroad car. Said Wheel comprises members 25 and 26 held together by bolts or rivets 27'. Members 25 and 26 have nubs 28 and 29 adapted to engage with corresponding recesses in the fabric tire whereby to hold same securely inl position. The fabric tire when applied to the drive- Wheel of a railroad engine, as may be the case in this instance, has the useful function of vclenching the rail in a more effective manner adapted tolihcrease the trac# tion power of the engine,l as well as 'to deaden the sound. The invention conteni" lates a uniform density of the fabricf'fplies throughout its Obviously, th'e mere c1rcumferstructure. ential cmopression of thefplies' of fabric into a tire, Without any additional means to compensate for the variation in distance from the center of the parts-fof the plies, would produce a tire that would have one density along a plane nearest the center and a pro portional variation orlreduction in density,

as the aforesaid planereceded from the cen position of smaller pieces 30 of the fabric, metal pieces 32,' correspondlngly shaped with the pieces of' fabric 30 and 31, and

serving to efect an anti skidding device for the tire.

Althou h I have above statedthat the Having thusdescribed my invention, what.

I-claim as'new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A tire for a vehicle, wheel consisting of a hard compact ring `composed of transverse l radially-arranged plies of woven fabric compressed circumferentially, radially and transversely of the ring, and a binder for said ring holding said plies assembled and compressed. l

2. A tire for a vehicle wheel consisting of a hard compact ring composed of transverse radially-arranged plies of woven fabric compressed circumferentially, radially and transversely of the ring, said plies having their threadsarranged diagonally to form a wearing surface of thread ends', and a binder for holding said plies assembled and com. pressed.

3. In a vehicle tire, a plurality of pieces .of fabric arranged transverse to the body of the Wheel, certain of said pieces differing in size from others Whereby'to make the tire of uniform density, substantially as described.

i In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signa-ture in the presence of two witnesses.

.BRADFORD H. DIVINE.

'- Witnesses:

ELEANORT. DE GIORGI, T. L. WILDER. 

